Iron County register., 1887-01-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the gifts presented to the serving peoDle
were quite valuable Jerry, the man of
all work, receiving a neat sum of money
and provisions sufficient to last his family
several days.
Mas JOHN BURKE was burned to death
at Scranton, Pa, on the 2Sth, by a lamp
explosion.
LEWIS ID. HAYES, for six years one OF the
editorial writers of the Indianapolis Jour
eadt, died on the 2Sth, after five weeks i'll
ness. He was thirty-seyen years of age.
HARVARD COLLEGE receives some $4OO, 900
| by the will of John Q. A. Williams, which
was filed in the Suffolk County Mass.}
Probate Court on the 2Sth.
OWING to the illness of Judge Pratt,
hearing of the motion for new trial for
| ex-Alderman McQuade in New York, was
| postponed from the 2Sth to the 30th.
The bodies of John johnson and John
Gibson, the fremen who lost their lives in
the theater fire at Philadelphia, on the 27th,
were recovered on the 2Sth.
THE French officer Letellier, who was
arrested recently at Carlsruhe on sus-
plcion of his being spy, has been hber-
ated.
JAMES A. LYDsToS, of Illinois, has been
appointed medical examiner in the pension
! office, at salary of S1,SOo per annum.
| This appointment was made under Civil
Service rules.
| THE American bark Lillian, from Ban
| gor, Me-, arrived at Grenock, December
81 She experienced heavy gales on
December 10, during which three men
| were lost.
| THERE was an accident on the Metro
politan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio
| railroad on the 2Sth, by which two collid-
| ing passenger trains were pretty badly
| wrecked.
JOHN ELoA, JR., in jail at Arcadia, La.
| charged with the murder Of John Lavelle,
on the night of December "a, was taken
out of jail on the night OF the 9th and
| hanged.
| grand sachem of Tammany Hail. has re-
signed County Clerk james a. Flack
| has been selected to succeed him.
THE modern language convention of
| America met at Johns Hopkins University,
| Baltimore. on the 2Sth, for a four days
session. Nearly all the principal colleges
in the United States We're represented.
GOVERNOR Hull of New York denies the
statement, widely circulated, that he was
about to visit Washington, where he
would be the guesto President Cleveland.
DR.. PATTEN, an aged man who lived
! alone in Franklin, Ne, was burne to
| death in his house. Dr. Patten was for
merly successful dentist, but lost his
practice through intemperance, and of late
he earned living by eobbling. The
| origin of the fire is unknown.
A MILITARY commission is at present eE .
| gagged in translating the words of COM
mand used in the Bulgarian army from the
Russian language heretofore used in Bul-
garia.
THE London Sporting Life is author
ity for the statement that Jem
Smith, the English champion, would sail
from Liverpool for New York on January
% to meet Sullivan in America.
MosT of the Baltimore glass blowers,
who struck several days ago, returned to
work on the 2Sth on the employers terms,
who insisted on their right to work APP
prentices. 1t was thought the remainder
would return to work soon.
| IT is feared in Vienna that the Bulgarian
deputaton of notab1es at their recent meet
ing with Prince Alexander arranged with
the latter to return to Bulgaria. This, in
the opinion of Austrian Government Of
ticials, would aggravate the situation and
render Russian occupation Of Bulgaria in
eyitable.
ONLY thirty-fve applications from as
many cities have been received at the
Post-Office Department for the free deliv-
cry system in cities entitled to the same
under the recent law of Congress. Unless
application is made by the cities entitled
to it, the service will not be established.
THE Ohio State Bar Association met at
| Springfield on the 2Sth. A hundred law
yers were present from abroad. Presi-
dent Hon. W. J. Gilmore, of Columbus,
delivered an address of one hours dura-
tion, containing among other things a
powerful eulogium of the dead warrior
and statesman, John A. Logan.
Tive of the participants in the great ex-
press robbery have squealed on Fother-
ingham, stating that he was to receive
$4,000 for allowing himself to be robbed
| in the manner he was. A large addition al
sum Of the stolen money has been re-
| covered, and the PinkertOns think they
| Will ultimately secure the greater portion
of the amount stolen.
AN entire block Of buildings at Green's
burg, Pa, was burned on the Goth.
THE 2Jth was the seventy-seventh ami
vcrsary OF Mr.. Gladstones birth.
| CHAs. II. RAYMOND, dealer in supplies,
New York, has failed for $4,000.
Thomas LANCHAN, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
stabbed his wife on the 29th so that it was
thought she would die.
THE Ontario elections on the 2Sth result
ed in a gain Of eight seats for the Govern
ment
THE London, Posi- urges the return of
Lord Churchill to the Cabinet.
| WILLIAM HUTTON, a farmer of Fillmore
| County, Mimi, was bunlzoed out of 81, 900
at New York, on the Goth.
| TWELVE eighty-ton guns are being con-
structed at Woolwich arsenal for the de-
fense of Victoria. British Columbia.
| Til. steamer Sir John was burned off st.
John. n. B.. on the 29th, and five persons
We're fatally injured by fire and one was
drowned.
| NJ. CLENESCEAU says there can be no
war between France and Germany unless
Germany makes the first attack.
AUSTRIA is becoming convinced that
Russia means war, and the Vienna press
| bewails the fact that Bismarck viii not
join against the Car.
.j COLONEL l.. c. WEIR, superintendent of
! the Adams Express, has stated that the
] amount stolen last October was between
.sS1 900 and SS2,G00. He had charge of the
3a,ayment of these losses at the time of the
lsobbery.
| DIsTRICT-ATToRSEY BLISS was one of
1a.e guests on the Goth at tea gis en- by
Mrs. Villas. wife of the fostmast asterGeu-
| exal, in Washington, to introduce her
daughter, who makes her debut this Win
ter -
| None of the Illinois ladies in Washing
tons intend to keep open house or hold re-
ceptions on New Years Das-, out of e.e-
| specf to the memory of Ges eral Logf n
and II Difference TO tho sore affliction Of
Mrs. Logan.
! IT is the intention of the Secretary of the
u Navy t. appoint, at the Washington Navy
/ Yard hv February /. a superintendent of
the new gun manufaetery at the yard, and
he desires publicity to be given to she fact
| and applications sent to him before Jan
uSry Is, stating the qualifications ef the
persons making application.
| GENERAL. dILEs called at the War De